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social-vulnerability-index-overall·dataset

Overall social vulnerability of each community, from the CDC Social Vulnerability Index

Social Vulnerability Index (Overall)
land NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Combines many social and economic factors into a single score of how vulnerable each neighborhood is to disasters. Areas are ranked as a percentile from least to most vulnerable.

How it's made. Built from U.S. census and demographic data combined into an overall percentile ranking.

How & where you'd use it. Helps planners and responders prioritize the communities most at risk when disaster strikes.

What's measured

socialvulnerabilityindexoverall

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2000-01-01 → 2018-12-31
  • Spatial extent-178.233, 18.908, -66.958, 71.383
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Overall Social Vulnerability Index - Percentile ranking

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("social-vulnerability-index-overall")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).